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September  2007
US Army rescues Blackwater unit from arrest by Iraqi security forces. 9-29
A U.S. soldier broke down in tears Thursday as he testified that he was ordered to shoot an unarmed Iraqi man, and that his sergeant laughed and told the trooper to finish the job as the man convulsed on the ground. 9-29
Military Reports It Has Killed A Senior Leader of Al Qaeda In Iraq, But Was He Killed A Year Ago? 9-29
Some contractors over-react in Iraq - U.S. general 9-29
American Occupation Air Raid Kills 13 Iraqi Civilians 9-29
First US troops in drawdown plan now out of Iraq 9-29
Testimony in Court-Martial Describes a Sniper Squad Pressed to Raise Body Count 9-29
Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has rejected a US senate resolution calling for the creation of separate Sunni, Shia and Kurdish federal regions. Al-Maliki said: "They should stand by Iraq to solidify its unity and its sovereignty. They shouldn't be proposing its division. 9-29
4.5 million Iraqis displaced by U.S. occupation 9-29
Spanish Downing Street memo: US President George W. Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war. Coalition of the willing indeed. Held Over
Iraqis Call for an 'Uprising' Against Proposed Oil Law 9-28
Civilian deaths in Iraq air strike probed by U.S. 9-28
Civilian deaths in Iraq air strike probed by U.S. 9-28
Each month 60,000 Iraqi's are leaving to go to bordering countries. 9-28
THE Bush administration condemns the existence of militias in Iraq. At the same time, however, it countenances the existence of its very own militias masquerading as civilian contractors. 9-28
Turkey would consider US using border for Iraq exit 9-28
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 27
Iraqi Arab families ready to leave Kirkuk-minister 9-28
Top Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites meet in Najaf 9-28
WHO reports 2,100 cholera cases in Iraq 9-26
Skin disease rampant in Iraqi prisons 9-26
Bomb Strikes Basra Police Headquarters 9-26
High rates of contamination in Iraq's Shat al-Arab river, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the southern province of Basra, threaten life and could spread disease 9-26
Sunni recruits to police volatile Abu Ghraib 9-26
Gunmen kill Iraqi journalist in Baghdad 9-26
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 25 September 2007 9-26
U.S. Exacerbates Iraqi Civil War with Indiscriminate Commandos Training 9-26
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 25
The New Iraq Horror Show 9-26
Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq urged to "bait" their targets 9-25
Bush Offering ‘Back-Channel’ Political Advice To Democratic Candidates: Stay In Iraq 9-25
The Iraqi government is backing off its demand that the Blackwater security firm be expelled from Iraq 9-25
Over twenty retired generals have now spoken out against the Iraq War, 9-25
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 24
Bombing in Iraq city kills 20, wounds 30 - police 9-25
Suicide bomber kills police chief in Iraq city 9-25
IRAQ: Several local NGOs close down in Mosul 9-25
The “Green Zone” government hiding the real Cholera casualty figures 9-25
Hired guns, loose cannons: Americans will regret use of private armies such as Blackwater in Iraq 9-25
Ricks of 'Wash Post': U.S. May Still Be at War in Iraq 15 Years from Now 9-24
Iraqi Government To File Criminal Charges Against Blackwater Staffers 9-24
By shielding Blackwater from prosecution, the Bush administration has taught Iraqis that personal responsibility is a meaningless concept 9-24
Iraq occupation costing taxpayers over $8,000 per second. 9-24
Bush to ask for $50B more for war vehicles 9-24
Cholera's phobia in Baghdad 9-24
Internal Iraq oil pipeline cut by bomb 9-24
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 23
Sweden is no longer a haven for Iraq's refugees: Thousands face deportation as backlash brews 9-24
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 23 September 2007 9-24
Six days ago, at least 28 civilians died in a shooting incident involving the US security company Blackwater. But what actually happened? Kim Sengupta reports from the scene of the massacre. 9-24
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Prime Minister Noori Al-Maliki kept a polite distance as they attended a group meeting and avoided discussion of a Baghdad shootout involving guards from a US company protecting American diplomats. 9-24
How convenient: Iraq will not rush to expel U.S. firm Blackwater, under investigation over a shooting which killed 11 Iraqis, because it would leave a "security vacuum" in Baghdad, a government official said on Sunday. 9-23
U.S. Repeatedly Rebuffed Iraq on Blackwater Complaints 9-23
Baghdad pushes for wider U.N. role in Iraq 9-23
Iraqi Govt. has irrefutable evidence that Blackwater contractors fired indiscriminately and without provocation into a crowd of civilians. 9-23
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization 9-23
The occupation of Iraq costs $500,000 per minute 9-23
Kucinich: Privatization of Iraqi Oil--Spoils of War to Bush Ally? 9-21
"A new Congressional study finds that President Bush's plans for the U.S. in Iraq over the next several decades will reach the trillions of dollars, on top of the approximately $567 billion the war has already cost." 9-21
Freedom Now Officially on the March: Karate champion Chuck Norris is on the ground in Iraq 9-21
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 20
Video: Baghdad Hospital Children's Ward - Alive in Baghdad - Iraq 9-21
ORB Survey And 1.2 Million Iraq Deaths Ignored By Australian And Anglo-American Media 9-21
SOS: The United States of Terror 9-21
Iraqi Victims of Blackwater speak out 9-20
180,000 Private Contractors Flood Iraq 9-20
In this September 17 interview on CNN, Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill tells the story behind the Iraqi government's decision to ban Blackwater USA from operating in the country. 9-20
US agrees on British plans to withdraw from Iraq, says Petraeus 9-20
Meanwhile, in "Liberated" Basra: The billboard in Umm al-Broom Square was meant to advertise a cellphone service. The female model's face is now covered with black paint. Graffiti scrawled below reads, "No! No to unveiled women." 9-20
Unable to 'win', Bush Re-names the Enemy 9-20
Gates: ‘I don’t know’ whether Iraq war was a ‘good idea.’ 9-20
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 19 September 2007 9-20
Mujahedeen Army in Iraq target Iranian intelligence in Basra 9-20
Investigation Alleges State Dept. Inspector General Blocked Investigations Into Baghdad Embassy Lapses 9-19
U.S. Suspends ‘Land Travel’ Outside The Green Zone For Civilian And Diplomatic Officials. The surge is working. Last throes. Greeted as liberators. 6 months. 9-19
Bush Administration Flooding Iraqi Black Market With Billions Of Dollars In Weapons 9-19
'Repentant' Interpreter for U.S. Forces 'Promises' to Expose His Former Colleagues on Internet 9-19
The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq 9-19
Kurdish Guerillas Launch Clandestine War in Iran 9-19
Bush ally's Kurdish oil deal proves the surge has failed: Now dealing with Kurds, betting against Iraq 9-19
Iraqi Report Says Guards for Blackwater Fired First 9-19
Iraq to Review All Security Contractors 9-19
Blackwatergate may strain relations between the White House and the Iraqi government. 9-19
A lack of potable water has become one of the most pressing issues in the southern Iraqi province of Missan 9-19
First cholera case detected in Baghdad 9-19
New Military Report Acknowledges Signs of Police State in Baghdad 9-19
Violence, corruption and smuggling are hindering efforts to exploit Iraq's massive oil reserves. 9-19
U.S. Should Prevent Execution of Saddam's Minister of Defense. "The execution of Sultan Hashim for political reasons reflects badly on the American Army, which had promised him good treatment - and then delivered him into the hands of people who oppose the institution of the military and are intent on his execution." 9-19
Anbar Awakening Council: US military prevent us from fighting Al-Qaeda 9-19
US agrees further British withdrawal from Iraq 9-19
The U.S. commander in Iraq has issued a stark warning to Gordon Brown of the 'devastating consequences' of pulling British troops out of the region too early. 9-19
Iraqi government threatens to revoke Blackwater's operating license for shooting up innocent bystanders 9-18
Iraqis who aided American troops are being killed and Homeland Security has created a "logjam" of visas to get them out of there to save their lives 9-18
Mercenaries in Iraq outnumber Coalition troops 186,000 to 165,000 9-18
Iraq contractor, an ex-colonel, sentenced for smuggling $50,000 9-18
U.S. says 60pc of Baghdad not controlled 9-18
Baghdad residents protest US-erected dividing wall 9-18
Failure to win the hearts and minds: 57% of Iraqis now approve attacking US forces (.PDF) 9-18
Security is deteriorating in southern Iraq as rival Shiite militias vying for power have stepped up their attacks after moving out of Baghdad to avoid U.S.-led military operations 9-18
Cheney warns of Chaos if we leave Iraq now, because it's a such an orderly utopia 9-18
1. Sheik Abu Risha wasn't a sheik.
2. He wasn't killed by Al Qaeda.
3. The new alliance with former insurgents in Anbar is as fake as the sheik - and a murderous deceit. 9-18
Today, almost every archaeological site in southern Iraq is under the control of looters. 9-18
Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields 9-18
It's official: Ayad Allawi is no longer represented by Barbour Griffith & Rogers, the White House-connected lobbying firm he retained to sell the U.S. government on his "parliamentary coup" 9-18
The Iraqi Interior Ministry is pulling the license of Blackwater USA, an American security firm, after the company was involved in the fatal shooting of civilians 9-17
"I believe that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy. That means that I am acknowledging it is worse than Vietnam." --Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright 9-17
What Bush's invasion would look like in the United States 9-17
U.S. Mercenaries Kill 9 Iraqi Civilians: Iraqi police say security contractors open fire in western Baghdad, killing at least 9 9-17
Shia bloc quits Iraq's governing coalition 9-17
Gates Raises Possibility Of Deploying More National Guard And Reserve Forces To Iraq 9-17
U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes Afghanistan and Iraq 9-17
Series Of Bombings And Shootings Kill At Least 50 In Iraq 9-17
Diyala province, on Iraq's eastern border with Iran, is the scene of some of the worst violence in Iraq today, making the province's shortages of basic services worse than anywhere else in the country. 9-17
The most insane failed IED attack you will see all day. 9-17
The number of Iraqi Army and police battalions considered ready to conduct combat operations without help from the United States has declined from 15 at the beginning of the year to 12 this month 9-17
One family's harrowing story of kidnap and murder in Iraq: Nadia Hayali tells of the day her family were seized and she lost her husband, a story that gives the lie to claims that US forces are succeeding in Baghdad. 9-17
These are just a few of the things you won't hear much about from the American officials in Washington who profess to care so deeply about the people of Iraq. 9-17
This week, Amb. Ryan Crocker pointed to progress on Iraqi oil-revenue sharing as a sign of increasing political stability and progress. Alas, this success story has failed, too. 9-15
U.S. investigating source of 'contraband' underwear found at Guantanamo camp 9-15
They have planted bombs and shot soldiers – now it is time for school 9-15
Iceland to pull lone soldier out of Iraq. 9-15
Outgoing White House Press Secretary Tony Snow went as far as to claim the Iraqi public supports Bush’s call for an “enduring” occupation 9-15
President Bush's speech: Iraqi government is sharing oil revenues. Reality: Iraqi oil law is deadlocked. 9-14
In his address to the nation, President Bush said, “We thank the 36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq...". Chris Mathews says what we were thinking 9-14
Cost of Iraq war: $2 trillion. Finding Osama bin Laden: Priceless 9-14
How the U.S. set about to destroy the Iraqi national psyche and then push through a disastrous privatization of its economy. 9-14
Petraeus: 'I don't know' if Iraq war makes America safer. 9-14
The killing of Sattar Abu Rishah is a serious blow to for Bush's policies, President Bush and the US commander in Iraq 9-14
Iraq: Civilian death toll in Iraq may top 1 million 9-14
How Hot Is Iraq? 9-14
Petraeus Report Misses Point: Parties to the Iraq Civil War Are All Manipulating the Americans 9-14
Bush buys time, leaves Iraq for next president-papers 9-14
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 13 September 2007. 9-14
A Look At How Petraeus Helped Arm Warring Sunni and Shia Militias in Iraq 9-13
Refresher: Former correspondent for Stars and Stripes and a contributor to Washington Monthly wrote the article that first debunked the myth of al Qaeda in Iraq 9-13
A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. 9-13
Petraeus' Subordinate: Yes, We Are Arming Sunnis 9-13
U.S. Seeks Pact With Sadr's Militia 9-13
Republican House Leader: war in Iraq is a "small price" to pay 9-13
US-Backed Sunni Shiek Killed In Anbar Bombing 9-13
Iraq tribal leader who opposed al Qaeda killed 9-13
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 13
Baghdad neighbours protest over dividing wall 9-13
By Bush's Own Standard, Surge Has Failed 9-12
Two Of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed Die In Iraq 9-12
Stop me if you've heard this before: Just six more months.. The six months that never end. 9-12
Petraeus: ‘I don’t know’ if Iraq war makes America safer. 9-12
Iraqi reporter: Baghdad '100 times worse' than a year ago 9-12
Iraq Insurgents Attack U.S. Headquarters 9-12
Forty-one percent of Americans believe that the US military should stay focused on stabilizing Iraq, while far fewer say the hunt for Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden should take priority, a poll found on Tuesday. 9-12
The public sees the Iraq war as a failure and thinks the U.S. troop buildup there has not worked, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll 9-12
According to most polls, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis today say that the country was far better off under Saddam Hussein, even during the embargo years. 9-12
As US troop levels in Iraq shrink, combat duties will not 9-12
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 12
Cholera Update 2: September 11th 2007
The surge is working and fewer U.S. troops are dying in battle. In other news, eight U.S. soldiers died in "vehicle accidents" today in Iraq 9-11
Petraeus: "I see tangible progress. Iraqi security elements are being rebuilt from the ground up." -- September 2004 9-11
Petraeus Spent At Least 17 Days In August Flacking For Bush’s Escalation 9-11
Iraq poll September 2007: In graphics 9-11
More on That Poll of Iraqis 9-11
Religious clerics are beginning to play an increasingly powerful role in Iraq. Many Iraqis now fear that they are endangering human rights and religious freedom in the once largely secular country. 9-11
Two Big Skeletons in Petraeus’s Closet 9-10
Despite what General Petraeus says, Iraqis say that the "surge" is making things worse 9-10
Time Magazine dated Sep 10, 2001: Bush wants to invade Iraq. 9-10
As more in the British military speak out; it turns out the US 'delayed UK Basra withdrawal' for 5 months 9-10
The chart Petraeus won’t show. 9-10
Bush, officials pass buck over who ordered Iraq army disbanded 9-10
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 9 September 2007 9-10
The brilliant Iraqi blogger, Riverbend has fled to Syria. 9-7  
Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq: Military Statistics Called Into Question 9-7
Independent panel sees progress by Iraqi Army 9-7
Gen. Jones: ‘Yes,’ we can begin to withdraw from Iraq. 9-7
Jones Report Reveals ‘Progress’ In Shia Ethnic Cleansing Campaign 9-7
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 7
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 6 September 2007
Seven U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Thursday 9-7
New method of calculating Iraq violence: "If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian... If it went through the front, it's criminal." 9-6
New study recommends disbanding Iraqi national police and starting over. 9-6
2007 monthly U.S. fatalities in Iraq surpass 2006 levels. 9-6
Report: Massive U.S. ‘Footprint’ In Iraq Conveys ‘Permanence,’ ‘Opposite Impression Is Needed’ 9-6
Helman: Bush's Stage-Managed Photo Op with Sunni Sheikhs May Spell Trouble in Future 9-6
Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq 9-6
Bomb shakes Baghdad's Sadr City 9-6
President Bush's senior advisers on Iraq have recommended he stay the course, advise him he's doing heck of a job 9-5
Among GAO findings was that the troop escalation the Bushies call 'the surge' has not cut down on Iraqi civilian deaths this year. 9-5
A trillion dollars wasted, 160,000 troops currently in Iraq, over 3,700 U.S. forces and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed since Bush invaded Iraq in March 2003. And, we have nothing to show for it...not even the oil 9-5
GAO Chief Suggests Administration Is Cooking The Books On Levels Of Sectarian Violence In Iraq 9-5
Iraq's Maliki does his boss proud: accuses Hillary of meddling in Iraq 9-5
Paul Bremer, the former US viceroy of Iraq responded to Bush's allegation that he had not known that Bremer intended to disband the Iraqi army. Bremer shared a letter he sent to then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announcing his intention to disband the army, along with Bush's reply praising his leadership. 9-5
Al-Anbar residents killed 20 US troops in July. 9-5
Ethnic Cleansing Of Baghdad Is Complete. Bush to take credit for relative peace. 9-4
Occupation forces use Israeli company to fortify its military camps in Iraq 9-4
Iraq's Parliament Reconvenes After Break 9-4
Couric admits she's reporting only on what the military wants her to see, here's what I wish she'd be taking a look at. 9-4
British troops surge out of Basra 9-4
President Bush held the Anbar province up as an example of his escalation’s success and justification for why the troop buildup should not be cut short 9-4
The progress in Anbar was initiated by the Iraqis themselves: Sunni tribes fought and retook control from al-Qaida many months before the Surge 9-4
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 4
US Aircraft Rockets Homes North Of Baghdad; Death Squads Kill 13 More Sunnis 9-4
Amount Iraq’s oil and electricity sectors still $50 billion, even after the $6 billion the United States has poured into them over the past four years. Even with this funding, the GAO estimates that “it could take until 2015 for Iraq to produce 6 million barrels of oil a day and have enough electricity to meet demand.” 9-3
Amount Iraq’s oil and electricity sectors still $50 billion, even after the $6 billion the United States has poured into them over the past four years. Even with this funding, the GAO estimates that “it could take until 2015 for Iraq to produce 6 million barrels of oil a day and have enough electricity to meet demand.” 9-3
Nouri al-Maliki adopts republican leadership style,  equating criticism with supporting terrorists 9-2
Marine says he was ordered to kill a roomful of women and child during the alleged Haditha massacre. 9-1
Top British army officer attacks U.S. policy in Iraq as 'intellectually bankrupt' 9-1
The Great Iraq Swindle 9-1
Sen. James M. Inhofe says insurgents attempt to shoot down the C-130 military transport plane carrying him and other lawmakers in Iraq demonstrated the progress of the U.S. military campaign 9-1
Iraq Civilian Deaths Rise: Over 1,800 Killed In August 9-1

September  2006

Freedom is on the March: Iraqi Journalists Charged Under New Laws Criminalizing Speech Against The Government. 9-29
Woodward: Bush concealing level of Iraq violence 9-29
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 29
79 percent of Iraqis say that the US is having a negative influence on the situation in Iraq, with just 14 percent saying that it is having a positive influence 9-29
Crucial Iraq Police Academy a 'Disaster': A $75 million project to build the largest police academy in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now poses health risks to recruits and might need to be partially demolished 9-28
Iraq terror leader recruits scientists 9-28 
40 men found tortured, shot dead in Iraq 9-28
Top Shiite cleric is accusing President Bush of turning the Middle East into "hell." 9-28
Quarter million Iraqis fled homes, data shows 9-28
Most Iraqis favor withdrawal of US forces soon-poll 9-28
Propaganda Firm, The Lincoln Group, just won a multi-million dollar contract from the Pentagon to monitor media coverage of war in Iraq 9-27
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 27
Eight die as US air strike destroys Iraq house 9-27
U.S. House clears $70 billion mostly for Iraq war 9-27
US government agencies charged with the reconstruction of Iraq allocated $362m to non-existent "dummy vendors", according to a report by the watchdog overseeing the reconstruction effort. 9-27
Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Video Documentary By Robert Greenwald 9-27
A proposal that could carve Iraq into three autonomous states moved forward Monday after leaders of the country's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed to delay any division until 2008. 9-27
Bush's Own Church Launches Week Of Protest Against Iraq War. 9-26
CHRONOLOGY-Saddam Hussein's trials 9-26
U.S. Army extends Iraq duty for 4,000 10-25
US Army weighs more combat units for Iraq -report 10-25
President Bush: “I Like To Tell People When The Final History Is Written On Iraq, It Will Look Like Just A Comma” 10-25
Iraq agrees committee to amend constitution 10-25
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 25
In the real Iraq, armed Shiite and Kurdish parties have divided up the eastern two-thirds of the country, leaving Sunni insurgents and American marines to fight over the rest. 10-25
As of last week, 638 civilians working for contractors had been killed in Iraq, according to insurance claims figures from the U.S. Department of Labor. In the 1990s, about 200 contractors and workers for non-governmental organization were killed worldwide 10-25
Baghdad Bombing Kills 35 On Eve Of Ramadan. 9-23
US says 3,000 more Iraqi troops needed in Baghdad 9-23
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 23 
US Marines considered bombing site of Haditha child-rape and massacre 9-23
CIA Veteran Speaks: ‘There’s A Civil War In Iraq And Our Presence Is Contributing To The Violence’ 9-22
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 22
Iraqi Civilian Deaths Hit Record High. 9-21
No One Dares to Help: The wounded die alone on Baghdad's streets. An offer of aid could be your own death sentence, an Iraqi reporter writes. 9-21
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 21
Torture, human rights abuses in Iraq are worse now than under Saddam Hussein's government 9-21
IRAQ: Analysts say violence will continue to increase 9-21
U.S. Senate Democrats plan probes into Iraq war 9-21
Remember when US military leaders were discussing cutting troop deployments in Iraq a couple of months ago? Gen. says U.S. may boost forces in Iraq 9-20
Suicide attacks, bombs kill 62 in Iraq 9-19
Bullets and Bodies In Baghdad : As I was walking back outside, gunfire erupted all around us. It turns out the Ministry of Health FPS had gotten into a firefight with nearby FPS officers from the Ministry of Electricity 9-19
Baghdad Empties as Residents Flee to Safety 9-19
US Resorting to 'Collective Punishment' in Iraq 9-19
A British soldier pleaded guilty today to a war crime for inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians, in the first prosecution of its kind in the U.K. 9-19
Don't have a finance background? That's fine, go open the Iraqi stock exchange: How Iraq was rebuilt by sycophants loyal to The Decider while experts were left out in the cold 9-17
Rumsfeld Unveils New Justification For Iraq War 9-17 Well, he almost told the truth..
A little discussed factor responsible for the invasion was the desire to preserve "dollar imperialism" as this hegemony began to be challenged by the euro. 9-17
US Imprisoned AP Photographer For 5 Months In Iraq 9-17
Adapting to win: When you try to build trenches all the way around a city of 6 million, three years after you invaded it. 9-16
Iraq calls for calm after Pope's remarks 9-16
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 16 
The UN secretary general has said that most Middle East leaders regard the US-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath as a disaster for the region.
Australia to send 20 more soldiers to Iraq 9-15
Death squads roam the streets of Iraq, killing 100 people in the last 2 days 9-15
U.S. Invasion Responsible for Deaths of Over 250,000 Civilians in Iraq 9-15
Iraq Asks Iran For Security Help 9-14
Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans 9-14
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 14
IRAQ: Armed conflict depriving youth of education, report says 9-14
Sr. Commander In Iraq: US Not Strong Enough To Defeat Insurgency 9-13
Police discover 65 bodies across Iraq. All were bound, shot in the head, and showing signs of torture. 9-13
A report by Human Rights Watch says that Palestinian refugees in Iraq have increasingly become targets of violence and persecution. With no country willing to accept them, they remain trapped in Iraq and living in fear. 9-13
Dahr Jamail: Fallujah Under Threat Yet Again: In the face of killings, and now threats of a new attack, residents remain defiant of the occupation forces. The hardships that people have endured seem to have strengthened rather than weakened them. 9-13
Iraqi elections believed to have worsened divisions, report says 9-13
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 13
U.S. again won't seek death penalty in Iraq killing 9-13
Five Iraqi Soldiers Seized In Border Clash With Iran 9-11
Iraqi PM's trip to Iran postponed. He gave no reason for the delay. 9-11
9/11 Commission Chair: “There's No Question The War In Iraq Is Radicalizing”. 9-11
US Marine intelligence assessment of Anbar province, Iraq: "We haven't been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically -- and that's where wars are won and lost." 9-11
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 11
Iraq Constitution Agreement On The Rocks 9-11
Sunni Bloc Denounces Legislation to Split Iraq 9-11
Support our oops: Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, a Senate report says, contradicting assertions President Bush has used to build support for the war in Iraq. 9-9
And here comes the spin: Tony Snow claims Iraq was only considered a threat, not an ally of al-Qaeda. 9-9 and just what was that threat? -ed
US Excludes Car Bomb, Mortar Attack Deaths To Lower Baghdad Body Count 9-9
Top Army, Marine Corps Generals On Iraq: “We Have A Failed Strategy”. 9-8
Iraq's government closed the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television on Thursday after accusing the Dubai-based news channel of "unprofessional" reporting 9-8
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 8
Iraq Revises, Triples August Death Toll 9-8
ABC Reports From Iraq: “A Much-Publicized Drop-Off In Violence...Apparently Didn't Exist” August Death Total in Baghdad Morgue Triples 9-7
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 7
The United States was set on Thursday to hand over formal command of Iraqi troops to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, a significant step towards the withdrawal of some 150,000 U.S.-led foreign troops. 9-7
Nevermind the 14 permanent U.S. bases 9-7
...and the U.S. embassy rising in Baghdad that will be larger than Vatican City 9-7
The United States criticised on Tuesday a decree by the leader of Iraq's ethnic Kurds banning the Iraqi national flag 9-7
Iraqi Kurds and Shiites draft proposal to split up Iraq into autonomous regions. Sunnis not happy. No oil for you! 9-7
Iraq executes 27 "terrorists" convicted of murder 9-7
Bombs in Northern Baghdad Kill 9 9-7
Iraq’s “Death Squads” revealed 9-7
IRAQ: Slow reconstruction blamed on corruption 9-7
Iraqi parliament to discuss possibly breaking the country up 9-6
Despite President Bush's clear statements to the contrary, Zogby finds that 65% of Republicans think Saddam had something to do with 9/11 9-6
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 6
Speaker warns Iraq has months to avert collapse 9-6
Iraqi parliament mulls federal break up 9-6
The Sunni-Shiite divide is a deplorable ploy that was implemented by the West to create a diversionary tactic. Regrettably, the people of Iraq have fallen prey to it, for violence begets violence. 9-6
Coordinated Baghdad blasts kill 55 9-1
Security developments in Iraq, Sept 1
Australia to Send Extra 38 Troops to Southern Iraq 9-4
Anger boils in Halabja, Iraq's "town of martyrs" 9-1
Suspected No. 2 al-Qaeda In Iraq Arrested for the 56th time 9-3
Iraqi Shia leader Sistani says he can no longer prevent civil war or restrain his followers and gives up on politics all together 9-4
 

September  2005

General admits to Congress that the number of combat ready Iraqi battalions has dropped from 3 to 1 9-30
Bush DID support national healthcare paid with American taxes... just not for Americans 9-30
At least 85 killed in triple Iraqi car bombing: Two pick-up trucks blew up in a central shopping street, with a third pick-up exploding in another neighbourhood 10 minutes later, local police Lieutenant-Colonel Adel Abdallah said. 9-30
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 30
Iraqi Resistance Report: Thursday, 29
U.S. general casts doubt on 2006 troop cut in Iraq 9-30
Falluja April 2004: A documentary by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doi 9-28
The slain Abu Azzam may not have been Zarqawi’s top deputy after all. Will his death have any effect on the Iraq insurgency? 9-29
President Bush worried about an upsurge in violence is Iraq. Mission accomplished 9-29
Experts suggest an Iraq Constitution could fuel insurgency instead of weakening it. Mission WAY accomplished! 9-29
Pakistan army captures Al Qaeda spy plane. Reporter finds identical plane for $55 at toy store 9-29
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq 9-29
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 29
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 28 September
Iraqis have expressed fury over the three-year jail sentence handed down to Lynndie England, the US soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in Abu Ghraib prison. 9-29
Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost as fields deteriorate. The failure to rebuild key components of Iraq's petroleum industry has impeded oil production and may have permanently damaged the largest of the country's vast oil fields, American and Iraqi experts say. 9-29
Scott Ritter was the former US marine captain tasked with finding Saddam Hussein's weapons. Now, in this first detailed account, he reveals how the CIA plotted to use a UN weapons inspection to overthrow the Iraqi regime - and how fiasco turned to tragedy when it failed 9-28
Falluja April 2004: A documentary by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doi 9-28
Escalating violence in Iraq hits new target: teachers 9-28
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 27 September 9-28
Female Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Iraq 9-28
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 28 9-28
Twenty-two bodies discovered in Iraq : The bodies of 22 men, shot dead and partially eaten by dogs, were found Tuesday in open countryside in eastern Iraq near the Iranian border, an interior ministry official said. 9-28
Families flee Samara ahead of planned offensive: Nearly 500 families had so far fled the city. Many were presently in the outskirts, particularly around al-Dur, al-Salam, Baghdad and within empty schools and government buildings near the city of Tikrit. 9-28
Up to 200 Iraqi Sunni politicians and scholars have pressed for voting down the draft constitution in the October referendum and threatened to declare civil disobedience if the US-led onslaughts on Sunni towns continue. 9-28
Al-Qaida denies aide to Zarqawi killed in Iraq : An internet statement denied on Tuesday reports that the right-hand man of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted militant in Iraq, has been killed by US forces. 9-28
Explaining al-Qaeda's Struggle Against the United States: “Al-Qaeda spent $500,000 on the September 11 operation, while America lost $500 billion as a consequence thereof, a million dollars for each al-Qaeda dollar.” 9-27
Senate sub-committee approves bill giving $50 more billion dollars to the Iraq War 9-27
Al Qaeda's No. 2 in Iraq killed again 9-27
“For each martyred prisoner, for each image of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, ten fighters rise against the United States.” 9-27
Many Iraqis believe suicide bombings done by US to start a civil war. 9-27
Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra?: Does anyone remember the shock with which the British public greeted the revelation four years ago that one of the members of the Real IRA unit whose bombing attack in Omagh on August 15, 1998 killed twenty-nine civilians had been a double agent, a British army soldier? 9-27
Galloway went on to remind people that the families of those who died on 9/11 did not suffer any greater pain than did the relatives of Iraqis and Afghans who died from American and British bombings. Each suffered unjustifiable deaths delivered from the sky. 9-27
Britain to begin pulling out of Iraq in May 9-26
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright issued a stern warning Saturday about the continuing US role in Iraq, saying "there are no good options at this point and the worst days may be ahead of us." 9-26
So what were two undercover British soldiers up to in Basra? 9-26
A policy of absolute barbarism? Basra; another milestone in war on terror 9-26
Forget comparing Iraq to Vietnam, the similarities between Iraq and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan are uncanny. 9-26
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 25
Medics fleeing Iraq's violence in their thousands 9-26
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians and police demonstrate in Iraq calling for two British soldiers to be tried as "terrorists" 9-23
Petrol bombs were thrown at British armoured vehicles on Monday 9-23
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 23 9-23
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 21 September 2005 9-23
Basra officials to boycott UK troops 9-23
Iraqi MP says UK Forces action in Basra is "Terrorism" 9-22
The Fallujah Model 9-22
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 22
US forces launch air strikes on Sunni town in Iraq 9-22
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 21 September
To say we must stay in Iraq to save it from chaos is a lie 9-22
Insurgents refrain from attacking Iraqi forces so long has US troops keep out. 9-22
Covert Action operations are often Disinformation Operations, which are conducted in such a way as to discredit the opposition or the enemy. This is done, for example, by doing a violent action, such as a bombing, but making it look like the forces of another country or group did it. 9-22
TV shows captured soldiers' and their 'arsenal': The two men were members of the Special Air Services regiment, the UK's elite special forces commando unit. There was no official confirmation of that. The men were dressed in Arab clothing and driving a civilian car when Iraqi police tried to stop them. 9-22
Fake Terrorism Is a Coalition's Best Friend: Iraqi police recently caught two terrorists with a car full of explosives. Would it surprise you to learn they were British Special Forces? 9-22
America Brought This War, But Iraqis Must Die In It “Everyone who hates America and likes keeping it preoccupied with Iraq, now has a stake in this war.” 9-22
U.S. death toll tops 1,900 in Iraq 9-21
Iraqi Anger Explodes in the Face of British Occupiers 9-21
A former government contractor was charged with fraud Tuesday for handing out top access ID badges in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to an Iraqi girlfriend and others not entitled to have them. 9-21
Mike Whitney : Who's Blowing Up Iraq? : New evidence that bombs are being planted by British Commandos 9-21
Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia 9-21
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 21 
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 20 September
Liberal Democrats call for Iraq withdrawal: The Liberal Democrats urged the government to start withdrawing its troops from Iraq to avoid further risk. 9-21
Extended tours of some US military units eyed in Iraq:: Lawrence DiRita, the defense department's chief spokesman, said it was "entirely possible" commanders would want to boost the force in Iraq beyond its current level of 140,000. 9-21
Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq 9-21
Wolfowitz: No decision to send W.Bank staff to Iraq 9-21
Two undercover British soldiers, in 'full Arabic dress' open fire on civilians in Basra, Iraq during a "special security task". Are promptly broken out of jail by British troops 9-20
Proof that Bush style democracy is blossoming in Iraq: One Billion dollars vanishes from the Defense ministry without a trace 9-20
Officials: Iraq Health Sector in Crisis 9-20
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 18 September
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 20
19 police and 2 civilians killed in fresh attacks : Another suicide bomber blew himself up today near an Iraqi police commando patrol. Five policemen and two civilians were killed. 9-20
Two suicide car bombers killed 10 when they struck checkpoints south of Baghdad on Monday on a road used by thousands of Iraqi Shia pilgrims making their way by foot to the holy city of Karbala. 9-20
Iraqi working for NYT found shot dead in Basra: An Iraqi working as a reporter for the New York Times was found dead in the southern city of Basra on Monday after being kidnapped by masked men, family members and a doctor said. 9-20
Al Qaeda training ground shifts to Iraq - UN panel 9-20
Zarqawi is dead, claims Baghdad imam 9-19
Billions plundered from Iraq military 9-19
World Bank considers returning staff to Baghdad 9-19
Najaf is widely cited by the military as one of the success stories in that effort, but U.S. officers involved in the rebuilding say that reconstruction projects here, as elsewhere in the country, are hobbled by poor planning, corrupt contractors and a lack of continuity among the rotating coalition of officers charged with overseeing the spending. 9-19
Shootings put security contractors under scrutiny in Iraq: Foreign workers firing on civilians, US officials say 9-19
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 19 
At least 30 dead in Iraq car bomb attack 9-19
Police find 20 bodies in river north of Baghdad 9-19
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 17
Bloody week ends with 52 more dead in Iraq 9-19
Al-Qaeda's slaughter has one aim: civil war 9-19
Iraq attack targets members of Parliament: Gunmen kill a Kurd lawmaker; militia protests Basra arrests 9-19
American support for Iraq war at all-time low- poll: Nearly half of all Americans are not proud of what the United States is doing in the war, the poll found. 9-19
Tim Collins told his troops this was a war of liberation, not conquest. Now he says that he was naive to believe it 9-19
Iraq Parliament approves constitution 9-19
Second Day of Iraq Mayhem Kills 31 9-16
Senior European experts warned that the Iraq war had stimulated a globalised process of radicalisation and recruitment into Islamist terror groups. 9-16
Timeline: Surge of Iraq violence : Insurgents in Iraq have been launching almost hourly attacks on Iraqi and US military targets as well as civilians in a relentless wave of violence. This BBC News website shows where and when the attacks have been reported 9-16
Iraq's own President, Jalal Talabani, is now supporting a timetable for reducing American troops in his country, putting him ahead of most top tier Democrats. 9-16
“Even those of us who have tried to follow the war closely are not aware of a fraction of the horrors unleashed in Iraq.” 9-16
For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (Read-members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia Badr Army 9-16
Watchdog slams US forces for media deaths in Iraq: A media watchdog criticized the U.S. military on Wednesday for consistently failing to investigate the killing of journalists in Iraq by its forces, and said the Pentagon was losing credibility as a result. 9-16
At Least 160 Die in Iraq al-Qaida Bombings 9-15
Baghdad carnage revenge for assault on rebel town: Militants loyal to "Al-Qaeda's" Iraq frontman said in an Internet statement that they had carried out a wave of suicide bombings in Baghdad to avenge an offensive by US and Iraqi government troops on the northern rebel town of Tal Afar. 9-15
Iraqis Discuss Voting, Or Not, in Elections Held Amidst Chaos 9-15
Iraqi law minister blasts US detentions: Iraq's justice minister has condemned the US military for detaining thousands of Iraqis for long periods without charge and wants to change a UN resolution that gives foreign troops immunity from Iraqi law. 9-15
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 15
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs 9-15
Al-Qaeda linked Sunni group in Iraq said it used chemical weapons to attack targets in Baghdad today 9-14
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Announces That it is Not Responsible for the Chemical Rocket Attack in Baghdad, and Claims no Ties to the Victorious Army Group 9-14
A masked teenager in an Iraqi army uniform walked slowly through a crowd of 400 detainees captured Monday, studying each face and rendering his verdict with a simple hand gesture, like a Roman emperor deciding the fate of gladiators. 9-14
Saddam erased from Iraqi school syllabus 9-14
The media has kept Tal Afar off the front page There was no doubt that Donald Rumsfeld would use the cover of Hurricane Katrina to mount a massive attack in Iraq, and he didn't disappoint. 9-14
Much of the American press has reported the Tal Afar campaign as a strike by the new Iraqi Army, supported by US troops, against foreign infiltrators in the largely Turkmen city of 200,000. However, the operation looks different if we know some details. 9-14
US-led troops go house to house in rebel Iraq town 9-14
Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi would like to form an alliance of liberal Iraqi groups to contest the forthcoming elections. 9-14
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 13 9-14
The Story of the Iraq Museum 9-14
Iraq Killings Raise Fear Of Civil War 9-13
A history Of Terror: 9/11/ The View From Baghdad: As I write this, Tel Afar, a small place north of Mosul, is being bombed. Dozens of people are going to be buried under their homes in the dead of the night. Their water and electricity have been cut off for days. It doesn't seem to matter much though because they don't live in a wonderful skyscraper in a glamorous city. 9-13
Iraqi City of Tal Affar Latest Victim of U.S. Bombardment “Iraqi ministries are still scrambling to raise the cash to meet compensation claims from Najaf, Sadr City, Falluja, Ramadi, Haditha, Qaim, Samarra and many other cities.” 9-13
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 12
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 11 September
An Iraqi militant group has offered up to $100,000 for killing the prime minister and top officials who launched an offensive on rebels in a northern town, according to an Internet statement posted on Monday. 9-13 
US 'approved' oil smuggling: The largest oil consignment smuggled out of Iraq took place with US approval just weeks before the April 2003 invasion, according to a United Nations report. 9-9
Iraq rebuilding under threat as US runs out of money 9-9
Powell regrets his speech on WMDs: He says that after U.N. talk, he was hurt to learn he was misled on Iraqi weapons 9-9
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 9 
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 8 September
Two Iraqi soldiers guarding oil industry assets were killed and another nine wounded by a roadside bomb in al-Jazeera area, west of Tikrit 9-9
THE United Nations has refused to start printing Iraq's draft constitution, yet again delaying efforts to get millions of copies to voters before a referendum on October 15. 9-9
I’m not wearing peace beads and hugging trees and singing John Lennon’s ‘Give Peace a Chance.’ I joined the Marine Corps. I love the Marine Corps. I happen to think it’s being misused in Iraq 9-8
Iraqi Defense Ministry director killed: Maj. Gen. Hadi Hassan Omran, an Iraqi Defense Ministry director general, was shot to death as he drove through Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood 9-8
Iraqi, US forces bring medical aid to Abu Ghraib district 9-8
25 Killed As Civilians Are Forced To Flee U.S. / Iraqi Forces: Doctors for Iraq warns of medical and humanitarian crisis 9-8
Iraq veteran Kelly Dougherty speaks of the realities of life in Iraq and the growing movement against the occupation 9-8
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 7 September 
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 8
Iraqi MPs on Tuesday debated sweeping anti-terror legislation that would make even crimes such as vandalism subject to the death penalty in a bid to quell the raging insurgency. 9-8
American hostage freed after 10 month captivity in Iraq 9-7
Don't let them 'Fallujah' us, Iraqis asked 9-7
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 6 September 9-7
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 7 9-7
Meanwhile, back in Iraq, Zarqawi's forces have taken over a key town in western Iraq, executed government officials and civilians, and posted a new sign at town entrance: "Welcome to the Islamic Kingdom of Qaim" 9-6
Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has infiltrated key levers of power in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, southern Iraq, according to an independent Iraqi daily. 9-6
An alliance including the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars and the large movement of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said it rejected the draft and a "political process which had been led by occupiers and their collaborators." 9-6
Iraq's Kurdish Leader Issues Broadside Against Arab Countries 9-6
Gunmen mount dawn raid on Iraq ministry: Up to 30 gunmen in 10 cars fired on Iraq's interior ministry at dawn on Monday, killing two police and wounding five, ministry sources said, in what appeared a carefully coordinated attack on a sensitive target. 9-6
Insurgents killed 19 Iraqi police and soldiers Saturday in clashes around Baqouba, as U.S. and Iraqi forces intensified offensive operations in a rebel-infested city that the Americans subdued last year - only to have the Iraqis lose control. 9-4
Report 50 Killed As Health Clinic Bombed In Military Attack On Al Qaim: Hospital staff and eyewitnesses report of many casualties from the military operation on Al Qaim city. Reports are coming in of at least fifty dead including some women and children. 9-4
Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq: 'Stuff happens' 9-4
5 Saudi nationals killed in Iraq fighting: Two were killed in confrontations with U.S. forces within the past few days, the sources added. 9-4
Johns Hopkins University professor Les Roberts addressed the Hamilton community in a talk titled, “100,000 Civilian Deaths in Iraq: A Story of Media Spin,” 9-4
Gunmen Open Fire on Two Sunni Mosques in Southern Iraq 9-3
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 3
Bulgaria has begun preparations to withdraw its 400 troops from Iraq, the prime minister announced Friday. 9-3
Iraq carries out first post-Saddam hangings 9-2
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 2 9-2
Washington -- not content with god-fathering an Islamist Constitution for Iraq that establishes Islamic religious principles as the basis for all laws -- also succeeded in scrapping a constitution, drafted by the Iraqis, that was Iraq_mapmodeled on that of the social-democratic Scandinavian countries, and replacing it with one that fulfilled "the wish-list of international investors,” 9-2
U.S. confirms its troops killed Reuters journalist in Iraq 9-2
Baghdad Stampede Kills 800 Shiite Pilgrims 9-1
Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 1 
Poisoning Kills 25 Iraqi at Shiite shrine: Officials said 25 people died of poisoning after eating or drinking products that had been deliberately contaminated . 9-1
US forces in Iraq suffered more combat deaths in August than any month this year 9-1
A cameraman for Reuters in Iraq has been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison until his case is reviewed 9-1
An Iraqi television journalist who was killed covering a demonstration east of Baghdad became the 67th journalist to die in the Iraq war, a media advocacy group said Tuesday. 9-1
US Offered USD 75 Million to Iraqi Sunnis for Signature under Constitution 9-1

2003

9-29 Must Read: A History of the Iraq War, Told Totally in Lies:  All text is verbatim from senior Bush Administration officials and advisers.
9-29 THE Unbuilding of Iraq - Newsweek 
Wrongheaded assumptions. Ideological blinders. Weak intelligence, missteps, poor coordination and bad luck. How Team Bush’s reconstruction efforts went off the rails from day one
9-29 Assailants Attack Seat of U.S. Authority in Iraq:  Assailants fired three explosive projectiles at a hotel housing hundreds of military personnel and civilian reconstruction staff members.
9-29 In Iraq, private contractors lighten load on U.S. troops:
Much of the work conducted by the contractors is secret. Western security officials in Iraq say the companies aren't yet going out on combat operations as they do in Colombia and other countries.
9-29 The U.S. was sure Saddam had WMD, but Iraqi scientists tell TIME the weapons were destroyed long before the war.
9-28 A Cynical Speech Aljazeerah.info   The invasion of Iraq was devised by the neo-con PNAC gang, comprising Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Perle, et al.
9-28 The Sunday Times has reported that the CIA is recruiting former agents from Saddam Hussein’s notorious security forces in Iraq.
9-28 Ex-Sandinista soldiers now helping U.S. in Iraq
9-27 Focusing on the Reasons for War: With no proven ties to Al Queda and no weapons of mass destruction to be found, why in heavens name did the White House order the invasion of
Iraq?
9-27 U.S. Absolves Troops In Shooting Of Iraqi Police:
A U.S. military investigation found no misconduct by U.S. soldiers who earlier this month killed eight Iraqi policemen and a Jordanian hospital guard near Fallujah, the U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday.
9-27 FROM tanks to troops, signs are growing that Iraq is bigger- San Francisco Chronicle, CA  Wear and tear on tanks in Iraq is outpacing the Army's efforts to repair and resupply
9-27 Focusing on the Reasons for War: With no proven ties to Al Queda and no weapons of mass destruction to be found, why in heavens name did the White House order the invasion of
Iraq?
9-27 U.S. Absolves Troops In Shooting Of Iraqi Police:
A U.S. military investigation found no misconduct by U.S. soldiers who earlier this month killed eight Iraqi policemen and a Jordanian hospital guard near Fallujah, the U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday.
9-27 FROM tanks to troops, signs are growing that Iraq is bigger- San Francisco Chronicle, CA  Wear and tear on tanks in Iraq is outpacing the Army's efforts to repair and resupply
9-27 U.S. Urged To Modify Approach to Postwar Iraq :
"Is the United States really interested in creating an Iraqi democracy, or are we fearful that giving power to the Iraqi people will produce policies counter to our interests?"
9-27 Tortured Confessions:
The "confessions" of Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, made
under CIA interrogation, should be treated with skepticism rather than accepted at face value.
9-26 Iraq Plan Includes Zip Codes, Atrocity Museum, English Lessons:  President Bush's $20.3 billion proposal for rebuilding Iraq includes money to establish ZIP codes there, help Iraqi workers learn English and
start a museum of former leader Saddam Hussein's atrocities, an administration document shows.
9-26 bin Laden and al-Qaeda have been winners from the Iraq war
9-26 A war based on fallacious reasoning - Asia Times Online, Hong Kong   Last Wednesday, US President George W Bush admitted there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had any role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
9-26 SALE of Iraq Suspended - Arab News, Saudi Arabia
9-26 Indignant Arabs Say Bush Must Fix Iraq Mess Solo:  Washington is seeking a new U.N. resolution to enlist wider reconstruction help and ease the strain on U.S.-led occupation forces. It rejected French demands for sovereignty to be handed back to the Iraqi people within months under a U.N. timetable.
9-25
journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie which could cost George W Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.
9-25 At the U.N., Bush Wins No Fresh Pledges of Iraq Aid U.S. Military Action's Value Has Limits, Delegates Say
9-25 Gulf War I vets twice as likely to get Lou Gehrig's disease
9-25 war crimes complaint against the former commander of American troops in Iraq, General Tommy Franks to be handed over to US so much for a non-partial jury
9-25 Rumsfeld: Iraq funding affordable... In other news, schools, states, obviously not affordable
9-25 Bush asks Congress for $900 million to import oil *into* Iraq.  Stop laughing, I'm serious  
9-25 U.S.-led team finds no WMD in Iraq: report  
9-24 The Iraq precedent: Consent for the peril of global hegemony
9-24 Iraqis plan U.S. visit to press for self-rule: Iraq's Governing Council leaders will tell Congress that U.S. taxpayers could save billions of dollars by granting sovereignty more rapidly to the 25-member interim government.
9-24 Some 1,400 British and American experts are supposedly scouring Iraq to prove what Tony Blair and George Bush claimed before the war. But most of the Iraq Survey Group, the body created by the victorious coalition to replace the UN weapons inspectors, is not even in Iraq at the moment.
9-24 The CIA also paid for mullahs to issue fatwas, or religious edicts,
urging Iraqis not to resist American forces. He did not specify the countries this took place in.
9-24
No free press for Iraq. (I thought we were bringing democracy)
Freedom of speech campaigners have condemned US-appointed authorities in Iraq for banning television stations Aljazeera and al- Arabiya.
9-24 DEMOCRATS Say Iraq Costs Could Top $400 Billion - Reuters, UK
9-24 NO transfer of power for Iraq: UK - NEWS.com.au, Australia
9-24 The American soldier fired one shot from his machine-gun. That shot came through the car and hit Saad in the heart and came out of the back of the poor guy and scratched my arm and exited through the roof of the car." Then the Americans drove on. They didn't stop, Mr Cardone says
9-22 How the world can aid Iraq without helping Bush
The UN should drive a hard bargain in exchange for bailing out the US
9-22 US news media relegated stories about President Bush coming clean on Iraq-9/11 connections to the back pages
9-21 The Lebanon Scenario: Iraq under occupation is starting to look uncomfortably similar to Lebanon during its long civil war. The central government exists only in name, and neither police nor occupying troops are able to keep the peace.
9-21 Iraqi Councilor Member Shot, Critically Wounded: Al-Hashimi is one of three women on the 25-member council. She was preparing to leave for New York as part of an Iraqi delegation that will attempt to assume Iraq's seat at the U.N. General Assembly.
9-21 Robert Fisk: Iraq's occupiers suspected of losing touch with reality A culture of secrecy has descended upon the Anglo-American occupation authorities in Iraq.
9-21 Robert Fisk: Another Day, Another Death-Trap For The US: As usual, the American military spokesmen had "no information" on this extraordinary ambush. But Iraqis at the scene gave a chilling account of the attack.
9-21 Republicans Want Iraq to Share Costs of Rebuilding: With hopes of help from allies dwindling, some say U.S. should be repaid with oil revenue.
9-20 NO smallpox in Iraq - team - News24, South Africa
9-20 Bush's Death Toll in Iraq climbs ... and who profits?
9-20 EUROPE's Heavyweights to Discuss Iraq - Deutsche Welle, Germany
9-20 US troops in northern Iraq fired on a car carrying the Italian official leading US attempts to recover Iraq's looted antiquities, killing his translator
9-20 Mistakes of Vietnam repeated with Iraq
9-19 U.S. Raid Herds Iraqi Old and Young in Barbed Wire
9-19 BUSH: Sept. 11, Iraq not linked - San Jose Mercury News, CA
9-19 Blix: Saddam destroyed his WMD a decade ago: "I'm certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they maintained, destroyed all, almost, of what they had in the summer of 1991."
9-19 Top U.S. scientists assigned to the weapons hunt in Iraq found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime was making or stockpiling smallpox, Associated Press has learned from senior military officers involved in the search. So much for another of Colin Powell's lies to the UN 
9-19 Iraqis' Bitterness Is Called Bigger Threat Than Terror  To a lot of Iraqis, we're no longer the guys who threw out Saddam, but the ones who are busting down doors and barging in on their wives and daughters
9-19 Up to eight US troops were reported to have been killed today in an ambush in the Iraqi town of Khaldiyah
9-19 Mistakes of Vietnam repeated with Iraq
9-19 Ted Kennedy: Case for going to war in Iraq was a fraud made up in Texas
9-18 Rumsfeld sees no link between 9/11 and Iraq
9-18 W.HOUSE Distances from Cheney on Iraq-9/11 Link - Reuters, UK
9-18 US facing a rise in Iraqi hostility - International Herald Tribune, France
9-18 THE Terrible Truth About Iraq - CounterPunch, CA ... for war provided by the Bush Administration were never anything more than a cover for the neo-con agenda outlined in the Project for the New American Century
9-18 American GOP donors and corporations are the Only Victors in Iraq - Guerilla News Network ... Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld have been advocating an invasion of Iraq since at least 1998 through the Project for a New American Century.
9-18 THE WHITE HOUSE'S CYNICAL IRAQ PLOY Robert Scheer, AlterNet Bush and company are using the cynical ploy of "misspeak" first, "correct" later, in a continuing effort to put out misinformation about Iraq
9-18 U.S. cuts its hopes for help in Iraq: The Pentagon has sharply sliced the number of foreign troops it hopes will help stabilize Iraq, but even the 10,000 to 15,000 it is now seeking may be unattainable.
9-18 US admits holding 10,000 Iraqi prisoners: Asked if they had any rights or had access to their families or legal help while they were being "secured", she said: "It's not that they don't have rights ... they have fewer rights than enemy prisoners of war."
9-17 BIG Iraq price tag provokes scrutiny - The Daily Tar Heel
9-17 US: Forecasts For Cost Of Iraq War Way Off The Mark - Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic
9-17 The United States Vice-President's retreat from prewar claims that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons appears to be part of a broader Bush Administration effort to abandon disputed assertions without admitting mistakes, experts say.
9-17 The hawks fall out:
Washington's difficulties in stabilizing Iraq have forced into the open a division between Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and neo-conservatives
over US commitment to "nation-building" in Iraq.
9-17 Iraq: U.S. forces are holding six people who claim to be Americans for alleged attacks against coalition troops in Iraq
9-16 Colin Powell: We are not occupiers in Iraq, we are liberators  that's why we won't let them have elections, eh?
9-16 Iraq police chief & US soldier killed: Earlier on Monday, one US soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while on patrol in central Baghdad.
9-16 Robert Fisk: Powell's Baghdad Briefing Ignores High Price Of Failure
9-16 America's Hidden Battlefield Toll: The figures will shock many Americans, who believe that casualties in the war in Iraq have been relatively light.
9-15 US refuses to give timetable for democracy in Iraq - Daily Times,
Pakistan
9-15 POWELL Silent on End of Iraq Occupation - Arab News, Saudi Arabia
9-15 Iraq needs about eight billion dollars and at least two years of work to restore electricity supplies to pre-occupation levels , interim electricity minister Ayham Al Samarrai admitted on Saturday
9-15 By pretending Iraq was crawling with al-Qaida, they have created an Iraq crawling with al-Qaida.
9-15 POLL: Most Americans Oppose Iraq Funding Request - Voice of America
9-15 IRAQ oil industry up and running - ABC Online, Australia
9-15 VeeP Dick Cheney says that $87 billion request is only a starting figure.  
9-14 why they hate us
9-14 Troops Dig Into Own Pockets to Pay for Gear
9-14 US Troops Ignored Pleas as They Cut Down Iraqi Police: Anguished pleas failed to prevent American troops firing for more than an hour on a convoy of Iraqi police yesterday, according to survivors of the worst "friendly fire" incident since the end of the war.
9-14 Iraq WMD Search: Coming Up Short: Despite the failed search, at Fort Stewart, Ga., on Friday, President Bush again raised the lie of Saddam’s weapons: “Because of our military, catastrophic weapons will no longer be in the hands of a reckless dictator.”
9-14 Bush says ' no free nation can be neutral' over Iraq:
Speaking in his favourite setting of a military base, before soldiers, Mr Bush said "The defeat of the terrorists in Iraq "must be the cause of the civilised world". What terrorists in Iraq?
9-14 Iraqi Town Seethes as US Withholds Bodies, Information in Deadly Shootings:
A spate of three attacks in barely five hours hit US troops around Fallujah later Friday in what police and relatives warned was an omen of worse to come if the US military failed to trust its Iraqi allies.
9-14 BUSH reinvents Iraq - Aljazeerah.info
9-13 Saddam didn't lie; there are no WMDs, UN inspectors say In addition, the Iraqi nuclear program was in such a shambles it was unlikely to be able to produce atomic weapons any time soon.
9-13 Iraq / Creating a threat where none existed
9-13 The looting of Iraq: Kamel al-Keylani, appointed last week by the U.S.-backed Governing Council, said the idea of selling off Iraq's state industries, particularly its prized oil sector, would first have to be sold to the Iraqi people.
9-13 Iraq: Is Occupation Helping Or Hindering The Global War Against Terrorism?
9-13 Soldiers mistakenly kill 11 Iraqi police officers: Witnesses said 11 police officers and all four men in the car were killed in the hail of fire.
9-12 Suicide bomber hits US intelligence center: A suicide bomber exploded in an SUV outside the U.S. intelligence headquarters, killing three other Iraqis and wounding dozens, including four Americans.
9-11 HOW Iraq's war cost compares - Boston Globe, MA
9-10 US, Iraqi Militias Headed For Showdown:
The US-led coalition appeared Sunday headed for a showdown with Iraqi militias after giving them an ultimatum to lay down their arms that was immediately rejected by a leading anti-US firebrand.
9-10 Saddam's henchmen may finally have thrown in their lot with their ideological adversaries,  Alqaeda, to wage war on their common foe, the United States
9-10 Reserve Tours Are Extended:  The Army has ordered thousands of National Guard and Army Reserve forces in Iraq to extend their tours in the country to a year, months longer than many of the troops had anticipated.
9-10 Dean says Bush fooled American public to launch war against Iraq
9-10 Saboteurs blow up pipeline in northern Iraq
9-9 US admits to using napalm in Iraq
9-9 Even the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez has pronounced the American presence in Iraq "a terrorist magnet."
9-9 FROM Swagger to Stagger - New York Times       Dick Cheney's dark idea that a show of brutal force would scare off terrorists has ended up creating more terrorists
9-9 Rumsfeld says that criticizing Bush helps the terrorists. Actually no, Rummy. Reducing Muslim countries to chaos helps the terrorists. Nice try though.
9-9 Britain and the US have combined to come up with entirely new explanations of why they went to war in Iraq as inspectors on the ground prepare to report that there are no weapons of mass destruction there.
9-9 MSNBC: Saddam thought US would never invade, may have destroyed WMD cache in mid-90s  
9-8 He came in talking more troops and left blaming the Iraqi people, and either way, United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld found no easy answers on a three-day inspection of Iraq's worsening security woes
9-7 Rumsfeld Gets Hostile Reception in Saddam's Hometown: "Why are your troops still here? You wanted Saddam. He's gone. Now go home, "
9-7 Rumsfeld cancels appearance before US troops.
9-7 Executive order 13315, which Bush signed on 8/28/03, expands upon executive order 13303, and appears to be an asset grab under the guise of  funding the Iraqi reconstruction, placing Iraq's state assets under control of the U.S. Treasury.  In effect, the official looting of Iraq.
9-7 Rumsfeld cancels appearance before US troops.
9-7 Executive order 13315, which Bush signed on 8/28/03, expands upon executive order 13303, and appears to be an asset grab under the guise of  funding the Iraqi reconstruction, placing Iraq's state assets under control of the U.S. Treasury.  In effect, the official looting of Iraq.
9-6 How can an occupying army pacify a hostile population? Through utter brutality.
9-6 Iraq and the blind men
9-6 Human Rights American Style:
"Under Saddam's regime, it took 48 days to re-establish electricity in Baghdad after the destruction of the first Gulf War," says Nahla, And she adds indignantly : "Why have the Americans, the most powerful
country on the planet, not restored it more than four months after having destroyed our networks and infrastructure?
9-6
let's hear it for war profiteers!
9-6 CIVILIAN worker of Halliburton subsidiary fatally shot in Iraq,
9-6 Ramsey Clark Says America Should Pay Full Tab for Rebuilding Iraq
9-5 What the Hell did you think was gonna happen? The Iraqis were gonna fall in love with an occupying army?
9-5 Before the war, President Bush told us Iraq was a throbbing hub of terror. It wasn't, of course. But it is now
9-5 With relative ease, Iraq would be turned into an Arab Switzerland.
 Best of all, a veritable gusher of Iraqi petrodollars produced by the entrepreneurial skills of returning Iraqi exiles would pay for it.
9-5 America's Foreign Legion: Nearly 40,000 of America's frontline soldiers are not US citizens.
9-5 Al Qaeda links with Iraq denied:
Senior leaders interrogated by U.S. agents. The Bush administration has not made these statements public.
9-5
In case you missed it: Rumsfeld, Nov 15, 2002:  "That our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda is still developing, that there is no question but that there have been interactions between the Iraqi government, Iraqi officials and al Qaeda operatives, they have occurred over a span of some eight or 10 years to our knowledge, that there are currently al Qaeda in Iraq," he said.
9-5 Text of New Saddam Tape: Denies Role In Najaf Bombing
9-4 Bush asking UN for help in Iraq
9-4 Even US picked Iraqi Official Wants U.S. to Leave Nation
9-4 U.S. battlefield casualties in Iraq are increasing dramatically in the face of continued attacks by remnants of Saddam Hussein's military and other forces, with almost 10 American troops a day now being officially declared "wounded in action."
9-4 One In Seven Wounded U.S. Soldiers Die Of Their Battle Injuries
9-4 Army Says US Soldier In Iraq Dies Of 'Acute Leukemia' At least one family, and possibly two, want independent opinions on what caused the deaths of their loved ones after they became ill in Iraq.
9-4 Ousted Army secretary calls U.S. plan in Iraq ' totally inadequate':
"The result will be a financial disaster, more lives lost, chaos in Iraq and squandered American goodwill."
9-4 U.S. troops say they're not feeling the love in Iraq
Iraqis say their quality of life is deteriorating rapidly despite work done by US troops
9-4 Iraqi Civil War Brewing
9-4 Bush Regime's new campaign to put Saddam Hussein's murderous security forces on America's payroll in Iraq
 

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